Insight

Somewhat perversely, modern humans have traditionally adopted January as the month for new resolutions. Looking forward, not backwards, and planning for the year ahead (hopefully with renewed optimism) gets us through our post-holiday torpor.

On 25th October, the Department for Education (DfE) and the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) published The final information and guidance on funding, the levy, detailed funding rules, and the register of training apprenticeship providers (RoATP). Here at Pearson we have been busy digesting this latest information and are currently working on a number of summaries of the contents of the announcements. We will be placing this on our Funding Hub, and also updating our Handy Guide to Apprenticeship Reform shortly.

Since the unveiling of the Richard review in 2012, and the government's response a year later, the apprenticeships landscape has seen some seismic activity. But which of the tectonic plates have stopped shifting?